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That Home Depot/milkshake analogy is going to live absolutely rent-free in my head forever.

@elfsternberg.bsky.social

27 Oct 2023

My favorite writing analogy is from MST3K's "The Screaming Skull:" "So they put a tiny bit of plot in a box and just filled the rest with a bunch of foam peanuts. This, for example, this scene is a foam peanut. Maybe two." Now when I'm writing, I'll ask, "Is this scene a foam peanut?"

Adele Buck

@adelebuck.com

Sometimes you don't know right away, though! I wrote a scene in one of my books where a character is walking his (shy, nervous) dog and has to deal with annoying neighbor who doesn't control her larger, exuberant dog. 1/2

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Adele Buck

@adelebuck.com

27 Oct 2023

Several chapters later, I realized that set me up perfectly to have the love interest walk the dog, run into the annoying woman, and have the shy dog slip her collar and run away, setting up a Big! Emotional! scene of them searching for her in the rain. 2/2